Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
Quotations
Music
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven "Ludwig van Beethoven"
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
-Frank Zappa
"Real Frank Zappa Book"
I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.
-John Borrowman
The hungry and the haunted explode into rock 'n' roll bands.
-Bruce Springsteen
Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
-Karl Lagerfeld
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
I tried to look at writing a song almost like solving a mystery. The song was there, buried somewhere in my brain. All I had to do was follow the clues until I figured it out.
-Jon Skovron
"Struts & Frets"
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
